Historical Archives and the Historians' Commission to Investigate the Armenian Events of 1915 by Güçlü Yücel;

Author:Güçlü, Yücel;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: UPA
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Turkey’s Proposal to Establish

an International Historians’ Commission

A number of foreign lawmakers have long urged the government of Turkey to open its archives. Now that Turkey has responded positively and in good faith to these requests, the very least the foreign parliaments could do is to set aside their attempts to legislate historical questions and allow scholars time to study and write the history of the tragedy which affected Ottoman citizens during the First World War. Indeed, this was the position espoused by the American President George H.W. Bush in the autumn of 1989. In testimony before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East on 31 October 1989, President Bush’s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, Raymond Seitz, outlined the administration’s policy in the following terms:

The administration strongly opposes the Armenian resolution. We are not insensitive to the concerns of Armenian-Americans. But historians themselves disagree about what precisely occurred in eastern Anatolia in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire. The historical records of that period are now open for research. We should await that judgment.[7]

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